Argo

With this political season comes a political thriller, harkening to the heyday of political movies, the 1970s.  Argo is a movie based on a now-declassified story of the Iran Hostage Crisis.  6 embassy people made it out the back door before the embassy was overrun.  Those 6 hid out with the Canadian Ambassador until the CIA hatched a plan to get this out.

The plan was to pretend to be making a movie and claim that the 6 were movie people who had come to Iran for a location scout and then were leaving.  To provide cover, the CIA came up with a fake movie for legit background.  The 6 were to take new identities to provide cover under which to leave.

The fake movie that needed to be real:  like The Producers and Springtime for Hitler.  That provide some well-done comedy.  This was offset by the drama of if the plan would come off.  Like 2 movies in 1.

The political thriller was reminiscent of All The President's Men and whether or not the secrecy would work. Like Deep Throat, the ruse becomes a big part of the movie.

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